[mythtv-users] Thanks, and 2 more questions
Greg Mitchell
greg at nodecam.com
Tue Apr 24 00:02:17 UTC 2007
Frank Mckinney wrote:
> 1 - I've read that MythTV prefers to be 'set and forget', as in build,
> install, configure and don't touch it. At the moment what I'm planning
> is to eventually use the MythTV box as a backend with an Xbox frontend
> (so I can play games, etc.), but until I can get my hands on a used
> Xbox, I might have to use the MythTV box as a combined
> backend/frontend. Is it generally easier to simply re-install and
> start from scratch in this case, and just use the first experience as
> a 'getting my hands dirty' type of experience? *
You shouldn't need to make any changes to your combined backend/frontend
system to add an Xbox frontend at a later date. I mean, if you want to,
go right ahead, but it's pretty much a waste of your time.
> 1a - at some point I'll want to add extra hard drive space, or if i
> can afford it, do a motherboard swap and go to SATA drives, so the
> same question applies: is it relatively easy to add/swap hard drives?.
>
Pretty easy with the SVN versions, but 0.20 doesn't support multiple
recording directories just yet. When 0.21 comes out, adding more drives
should be as easy as setting up a new mount point as a recording
directory. That said, it isn't terribly difficult with 0.20 and LVM -
just that if you don't have to LVM, it'll be much nicer.
Greg
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